Abstract
Education has a unique importance in the development of the country. After independence, the changing role of education became decisive in creating a new share of development in various sectors of the country. Changes took place in many fields like defense, health, industrial, environment, trade, sports and entertainment. These reforms came in political, social, cultural, literary and religious fields. Education is the central principle at the root of all this. The country got independence in the year 1947. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the Prime Minister of the country. Maulana Azad, India's first education minister, gave the motto of equality in education. In it, Dr. Radhakrishnan Commission, Mudaliar Commission, Kothari Commission etc. Various recommendations regarding education were suggested by these various commissions. To properly implement these recommendations and bring radical changes in education, the first National Education Policy was launched in 1968 by the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Accordingly the course was started. Then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi launched the Second National Education Policy in 1986. Through this, new educational reforms like Navodaya Vidyalaya, District Education Training Institutions, and the impact of information technology were brought about. Still, to meet some of the errors, Prime Minister Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao implemented the Revised Education Policy 1992 in 1992. But it was not considered as a separate education policy. It was insisted that the impact and diffusion of education policy should be equally in rural and urban areas. However, after 50 years of independence, the promotion of education has not been what it should have been. Due to lack of education in rural areas, they are not so rooted. Therefore, in 2009, during the tenure of Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh, the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, RTE Act 2009 was unanimously passed and under this Act, every child got the right to primary education. All students between the ages of 6 and 14 were able to get compulsory and free education. The pattern of schooling] was 10+2+3. By changing this structure, the new National Education Policy 2020 laid down a new revised scheme of 5+3+3+4 covering students aged 3 to 18. Thus a radical positive change was brought about on all fronts of education. K Kasturirangan, the chief facilitator of this policy, ensured the direction of education after careful study with his team.